Imran Khan Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Imran Khan:
It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.
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I am basically a private person.
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But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
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The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
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But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
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Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.
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Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
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So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
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Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.
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Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.
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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
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People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
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When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.
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And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
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These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
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Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
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At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
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You don't kill your way to peace.
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One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.
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What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
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In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.
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During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
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